Primary east entrance of Cruess Hall.
Cruess Hall is the home of the Food Science department, a purpose it has served since it was built in 1951. It includes several food science labs as well as the offices of the food science faculty. The most interesting part of Cruess Hall includes the pilot brewery which is in a big room full of shiny things. This room is visible from Regan Hall Circle.
Downstairs is the Food Science Library which is a good place to study, particularly if you are a food science major—there are reference materials readily available. Additionally, there is a stapler in this room. Other highlights of the first floor are the Phaff Yeast Collection, departmental storage areas, and the food science computer lab where anyone can use the computers (must consent to "monitoring", no printer). Please be considerate of the food science graduate students who rely upon this computer bank for projects. Upstairs, you can find the Filper Room, where many Food Science Technology TAs hold their office hours. When not occupied, this is a good place to study. Please leave it more tidy than you found it—the department does not have janitorial service for the room.
And if those aren't the things you were looking for, perhaps you'd like to weigh your options at the nice old scale.
There is only one general purpose classroom in Cruess: Cruess 107; to get there, use the south entrance.
The ladies' restroom on the bottom floor is part of the Campus Lactation Support Program.
Cruess Hall is named after William Vere Cruess, a professor of food science at UC Berkeley and later UC Davis.
